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Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 1
Announcing the release of EF Core 6.0 Preview 1, the first preview of the new Entity Framework Core.
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 1
.NET 6 Preview 1 is now available and ready for evaluation. This is the first preview of .NET 6, the next major update to the .NET platform. .NET 6 is expected to ship in November of this year, and will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.9. If you're on macOS, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.9. Major work planned in ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 .NET 6 is using an open planning process, so you can see all of the major themes planned for this release on the Blazor-...
Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1
.NET 6 Preview 1 is now available and is the start of the next major .NET release, focused on .NET unification and supporting new platforms.
.NET Framework February 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework.
Yesterday, we released the February 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WPF2 Winforms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Known issues in this update Microsoft is not currently aware of any issues in this update. Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft Update Catalog You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. Custom...
Open-source HTTP API packages and tools
This post covers a variety of things any .NET developer who plans on building HTTP APIs will want in their toolchain or dependency list. We'll show you some new and exciting frameworks coming up that are built atop ASP.NET Core web API and hopefully make the craft of building and testing HTTP APIs with .NET easier. There are so many opport
Staying safe with .NET containers
An update on using .NET and containers together -- how to stay safe and keep your container images up-to-date.
.NET Framework February Security and Quality Rollup
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous release of this some updates. See known issues section for more details. If you've already installed a previous release of an affected update, no action is required. Today, we are releasing the February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework....
.NET February 2021 Updates – 5.0.3, 3.1.12, 2.1.25
Today, we are releasing the .NET February 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.3 , 3.1.12, 2.1.25 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64. Security CVE-2021-1721: .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 5, .NET Core 3.1, and .NET Core 2.1. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their...
Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API
This month, we'll be focusing on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. We'll explore a myriad of different tools, technologies, and services that make your API development experience more delightful. Each week, we'll release a new post on this blog that goes into a separate area of building HTTP APIs with .NET, focusing mostly on using ASP.NET Core 5 Web API and the OpenAPI Specification together to build, publish, consume, and re-use well-described HTTP APIs. Here's a glance at the upcoming series on building HTTP APIs using .NET on the ASP.NET team blog: Whether APIs are your product, or they're a fa...